Hello. I received the following report from the Debian bug system. Thanks.
----- Forwarded message from Werner Frey <[email protected]> ----- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:27:49 +0200 From: Werner Frey <[email protected]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> Subject: Bug#1118586: diffutils: diff --to-file=directory no longer works as expected Package: diffutils Version: 1:3.12-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, since diffutils v3.12 the option "--to-file" no longer works as expected if its argument is a directory. diff --to-file=directory file1 file2 file3 should compare file1, file2, and file3 to directory/file1, directory/file2, and directory/file3, respectively. But it only compares file1 to directory/file1 and reports for the remaining comparisons: diff: directory: No such file or directory [...]
